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Informative posting. I imagine John K likes his blog or he wouldn't have one? I'm on Blogger because it sounds better than Word Press. I like the B. I noticed "Bucket List" was on Turner yesterday. I liked that Story. "Shawshank Redemption" was another good Story. "I posted a yellow gesture drawing under my "Scribble Your Gesture." It was done at a free figure drawing workshop held once a month by a Man who has a Career. His daughter posed because the model didn't show up. One of his Models helped with my Grandma which is how I found out about him. I went along once and it was just she and him and it was comfortable. He talked freely. I attended a few times with the groups of people drawing and It wasn't comfortable for me so I quit going. Whether it's one on one or a group, I like fee communication along with comfortable quiet. I don't even mind people interrupting each other if they're happy/excited. I hear John Tesh for a few min when I drive sometimes with his Psychological Studies. I don't disagree with any of the reports really. He talks about everything. That to me is comfortable.

A hard thing for me is taking into consideration the caption bubbles and the space they take up along side the characters and bg elements. I never know how big to make them, or what size the letters should be. My bubbles end up being too big for my dialogue or vice versa. Then that messes up my composition. bleh...

I know this has nothing to do with the topic, but did you paint/design these awesome backgrounds? They look beautiful and they remind me of the wonky backgrounds of the wonderful Harlem Shuffle video you made. The colors and lines are fantastic.

Hi John. I have been working on all the pointers you gave me since Taffi. Structure, continuity, clean drawings, more cartoony... I wrote it all down! One think that is helping with my drawings is copying almost frame by frame, good old cartoons. Especially Tex Avery and Bob Clampet's. Reverse engineering is the best way to understand how they performed such miracles. You really opened my eyes man! Hopefully I will get really good and return the favor by working with you. I also got my hands on Toon Boom. Thanks for sharing the production stuff for Cans.

All of those Gold Key/Dell funny animal artist have never gotten their due with comic book fans like me. I don't know their names and know almost nothing about their careers. Were they picked out of the animation studios to shepherd the comic books (when comic book lines were important to studio)? Kind of like the way Disney plucked Carl Barks out of the studio to do the Duck books at Dell Comics. Or did they fall into the jobs in other ways?